Does your sense of presence have a habit of dissolving into tiny particles, leaving you unsure of who and where you are? Does your mind sometimes get foggy? Does your body disappear? Does time get strange, does memory grow patchy, or does the room feels far away? Do you long to have pathways of warmth toward these experiences?

Do you notice you are dissociated when you are spacing out, floating, collapsing, freezing, losing words, losing time, becoming very functional and far away, or feeling as though you are watching life from a distance? Sometimes dissociation is dramatic, and sometimes it is woven into daily life with such subtlety that we simply know that our aliveness, our memory, our body, our feelings, or our own sense of direction have become difficult to reach.In all these experiences, do you want to be able to return to yourself and be thoroughly grounded in a world where you have the agency to say no and still feel safe?

Dissociation is the brain and nervous system’s most effective strategy for those moments when our fuses are blown by automatic double binds. These double binds include moments when being ourselves would destroy our safety, our belonging, our own lives or the lives of others.

Our dissociation often holds the traces of trauma from our own lives and from past generations. Dissociation may be the place where younger selves are still waiting, where the body has stored what was too much, where memory and sensation have been carefully compartmentalized, and where the nervous system has made its own holy and mysterious arrangements for survival. Our dissociative worlds are also rich mines for our creativity.

The tools of Resonant Healing offer us a way of working with dissociation, which is to explicitly invite our Resonating Self-Witness to accompany ourselves and others to the place where consciousness goes away, the body feels distant, memory becomes misty, we freeze, float, and become very small – or sometimes extremely capable and very absent at the same time.

For this course, we will practice bringing our Resonating Self-Witness into our dissociative landscapes. We will bring warmth to the places that have been alone, to soften the hold of unprocessed trauma, and to make the material there more available for integration, self-understanding, and creative expression.

This class is open to anyone who recognizes dissociation in their life, whether it comes as fogginess, numbness, blankness, sleepiness, fragmentation, collapse, confusion, daydreaming, fantasy, losing time, leaving the body, becoming very functional and far away, or simply having a hard time staying with the fullness of experience.

Even scraps of memory, small moments of disappearing, sensations of floating, memories from childhood, patterns of shutdown, or fantasies that seem to return again and again will be useful material for folks taking this class. Participants can expect to walk away from this class with more kindness for dissociative strategies, new bursts of creativity, and a developed capacity to bring their Resonating Self-Witness into the places where they have learned to leave themselves.

Where?

The course will meet via zoom. We welcome participants from all time zones who wish to learn asynchronously for some or all of the sessions. Recordings and visuals will be made available to those who are registered for the live program.

When?

July 14 – August 18, 2026
Tuesday | 8:00 AM – 9:25 AM Pacific Time

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What To Expect

A warm space that creates room for the flow from thought into expression, support and resonant feedback, all in service of unblocking your creativity and more fluid expression. In each 85-minute class, we will:

• • Begin with a free writing period
  • Offer a resonance exercise or demonstration to support the movement toward free expression
  • Continue with a second free writing period
  • Create space for sharing and resonant responses to each other’s work

The classes will be recorded for participants in many time zones

What You'll Learn

Week 1: Dissociation: The Nervous System’s Survival Technique for the Unsurvivable Moments in Life and How to Accompany It
Week 2: Releasing the Nervous System’s Unconscious Contracts that Contribute to Leaving the Body
Week 3: Tracing our History of Double Binds and Time-Traveling into the Roots of Dissociation
Week 4: The Double Bind of Verbal Abuse and our Resulting Dissociation
Week 5: Calling Ourselves Home from Our Dissociated Experiences
Week 6: Honoring our Dissociation and Discovering our Emergence

Who is This Course For?

For writers, artists, explorers and creatives looking for a resonant space in which to support their creative expression. The creative process work that we’ll explore in this class is for anyone involved in, or longing to be involved in, any kind of creative pursuit.

This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support

Assistant support is available during classes. There are three ways this happens:

• In groups of three with one assistant and two participants, so that participants can practice the breakout exercises with support.
• In small groups, with 1 assistant and 3+ participants, with work with one participant occurring by lottery, and the remaining participants observing.
• Depending on assistant availability, the third option is 1-1 support to receive resonant processes like time travel and unconscious contracts for material that comes up during class.

Cost

$175-400

• This course is set up so that participants can contribute what they can.
• Please choose a variation that considers your financial resources as well as the contribution you would like to offer Sarah and her team.
• The standard tuition for this course is $300.  If you choose to pay more, your contribution will go toward supporting those with fewer resources to attend.

Please Note:

• Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
• This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
• This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.